Moving Water
I tried with all my might,
my physical strength
and my emotional strength;
but I could not do it.
I could not move the water.
I pushed and pushed with all my might.
I budged and I pulled and I pressed and I packed.
I couldn’t move that water.
I tried so very hard.
I tried to stare at it for lengthy period of times,
hoping for something out of this universe to move that water.
Hoping somehow, some way, that the water would move;
but it did not.
I tried my best,
but I was unsuccessful.
There was nothing more I could do.
I tried all my might to move that water.
But nothing happened.
The water didn’t even budge or sink or flow or trickle.
That water is staying put,
and put is put and put is put.
© 2003 David Greg Harth
03.11.18.03:41:02@296NYC
Do Something
Do Something
Do Something with your life
Just Do Something
© 2003 David Greg Harth
03.11.16.22:30:00@296NYC
I Want To Fall In Love Just Once
Just Once
Like in the movies I see
Like all the lovers I see
Just Once
Like the boys and girls
Like the sweetness I witness and never receive
Just Once
I want to be someone’s teddy bear
Someone’s honey
Someone’s bunny
Just Once
I want to cruise with a lover in my arms
I want to float in the air with a lover at my side
Just Once
Like the music I listen too
Like the dramatic theatre productions that I watch
Just Once
Like my friends and relatives
Like my professors and grandparents
Like my co-workers and past significant others
Just Once
During the holidays
During the Fourth Of July
During the New Year’s celebration
Just Once
During the first snowfall
During the August down pour
During the change of seasons
Just Once
During the central park walk
During the vast ceremonies
During the mellow drinks at the corner bar
Just Once
I want to be someone’s sugar pie
Someone’s pumpkin pie
Someone’s apple pie
Just Once
I want to fall in love
And never get out of it
Just Once
I want to fall in love
And get lost in it
Just Once
I want to fall in love
© 2003 David Greg Harth
03.11.16.03:53:47@296NYC
I Loved You Like It Was The Last Day On Earth
I loved you forever,
I loved you all of my life.
I loved you so much,
I loved you like it was the last day on earth
© 2003 David Greg Harth
03.11.03.10:30:00@296NYC
I Cry (Version #2)
I cry,
because I can’t meet your parents
or take a road trip with you.
I cry,
because I can’t have Thanksgiving with you,
or rent a movie with you.
I cry,
because I can’t watch you apply lipstick to your lips
or watch you wash your hair.
I cry,
because I can’t dance with you
or listen to you breathing in your sleep.
I cry,
because I can’t walk with you in the park
or go to an opening gala at a museum with you.
I cry,
because I can’t hold your hand
or expose our love to the world.
I cry,
because I can’t get lost in your eyes
or listen to the ocean with you.
I cry,
because I can’t view sunsets with you
or make love to you.
I cry,
because you can’t cuddle on my shoulder on an airplane ride
or let me embrace you during a cold winter night.
I cry,
because from sea to sea,
land to land,
I have not met you.
I cry,
because I want to be on an airplane with you,
kiss you and hold your hand
as we descend upon the NYC skyline.
I cry,
all the time I cry.
© 2003 David Greg Harth
03.10.27.14:29@296NYC
Morning (Version #2)
She smiled at me
as she rolled over
on the soft white bed sheets.
She looked up at me in a gaze
with the most beautiful morning eyes.
She left with no words spoken
and my heart was broken.
© 2003 David Greg Harth
03.10.20.01:12:07@296NYC
Loss
haven’t contained
i have only lost
haven’t obtained
i have only lost
haven’t gained
i have only lost
haven’t won
I have only lost
haven’t utilized
I have only lost
My sense of loss is great
greater than mankind
womankind
humankind
or for that kind,
womyn kind
Greater than a sense
beyond a thought
drawn pathways
passage doors
overlooking streets
from Milstein to Babies
Loss,
it’s what I have,
Lack,
it’s what I cherish
Loss,
it’s what I have earned
and learned, but,
certainly, I have not
yearned
Loss, my beauty,
is in my eyes
a reflection of you
but you are not there
but gone
as a wish
blown in the wind...
© 2003 David Greg Harth
03.10.12.01:08:04@296NYC
Love (Version #16)
Love is beyond
the comprehension
of those that drift
in this world.
The concept of love
is so beyond
great, immense,
wonderful and beautiful.
Love is out of reach
for many who possess
the largest heart
in the world.
Love is beyond
any amount of
desire, lust or warmth,
that a person may have.
Love is lost
among those that
wander opposite
sides of the earth.
Love never finds
two people,
it only ignores
those who want
it the most.
© 2003 David Greg Harth
03.10.06.01:05:22@296NYC
shared dream
My friend had a dream the other night about me.
This is what he had to say:
“
I had a very disturbing dream about you tonight.
i dreamed that you died (of encephalitis!),
and then i was on a boat,
and walked into the kitchen of the boat.
there was this huge fat cook
who was dissecting your head
and taking your eyes out.
it was you, definitely!
”
© 2003 David Greg Harth
03.10.02.23:34:00@296NYC
loving
I can hear the wind rustle
your grey Brillo-like hair.
I can hear the dust sand-blasting
your old-aged skin.
I can see your liver spots,
sprouting on your cheeks,
and on the palms of your hands
that held mine for so many years.
I can smell the scent of your urine,
as you struggle to make it to the toilet in time.
I can still smell the first bouquet of flowers
you bought me so many years ago.
I can touch your face filled with folds and creases,
and admire the years I’ve grown with you.
I can fall in love with you,
just by gazing into your foggy eyes.
I can comb your knotted hair clean,
I can place your worn shoes on your feet,
I can help you walk up the stairs,
I can give you your different colored medications.
I can hear the disease crawling on your surface.
I can listen to it penetrate your soul.
I can see the vivid dreams which you now act out.
I can look at the warmth you distribute through your native tongue.
I can smell the chocolate chip cookies baking in the oven.
I can feel the first snowfall we shared in the park.
I know you are fading away,
slowly reaching upwards,
to your night-time bed.
Slowly, leaving this place,
peacefully.
© 2003 David Greg Harth
03.09.26.12:52:57@296NYC
In The Shade
In the shade,
creeping up in the shadows,
out of the darkness,
he pounces on his prey.
Tears at her flesh
and eats her alive.
© 2003 David Greg Harth
03.09.12.12:05:54@296NYC
Silence
And on that day,
Clear September day,
Not a sound,
Not even a swirl of wind.
No motion,
No movement.
Nothing brought,
Nothing forgotten.
Simple reminders,
Every day.
Together,
Survivors of history.
Challenged by today,
Survivors of strength.
Too many,
We may bleed.
Remember then,
The passing is not forgotten,
But only remains,
A constant quiet,
A silence.
© 2003 David Greg Harth
03.09.11.23:52:26@296NYC
September 11th 2003
Lovers Lost
Lovers,
going among the dance floor
finding themselves
lost among each other
Lovers,
attempting to find a match
before the night comes to a close
not after the last flight out
Lovers,
following the sparkling lights
and moonrise above the mountain tops
a mile above sea
Lovers,
finishing their last cocktail
smoking their last fag
dancing their last step
Lovers,
searching each other’s eyes
trying to find that moment’s connection
to put the day’s events behind
Lovers,
reminding themselves that today is their future
while tomorrow life goes on
and yesterday was only a memory
Lovers,
lost on this dance floor in which we break
this dance floor which we make
this dance floor which we hate
© 2003 David Greg Harth
03.09.05.02:14:33@296NYC
Numb
Numb from the blindness
Numb from the taste
Numb from what she left behind
Numb in my throat
Numb in my mind
Numb in my cancer
Numb without spit
Numb without love
Numb without regret
Numb with thought
Numb with ease
Numb with wonderment
Numb through the valley of darkness
Numb through the parted waters by staff
Numb through the sky of limits
Numb on the ark of forage
Numb on the sea of waiting
Numb on the land of growth
Numb feeling in my memory
Numb feeling in my overloaded senses
Numb feeling in my wet tongue
Numb from sealing envelopes of the fourteenth
Numb from stroking the tired
Numb from thinking aloud
Numb waiting for she
Numb waiting for the hunger to end
Numb waiting for the completion
© 2003 David Greg Harth
03.08.26.03:50:47@296NYC
Again
It’s happened once again.
Woke up this morning.
Wasn’t me today.
Someone else, beyond that mirror.
Stared at myself.
Looked deeply into my blue eyes.
Hypnotized by the various shades and hues of blues cascading out of my pupil.
Bursting like a miniature universe of loss and uncertainty.
Followed the pattern my eyebrows made over them.
Noticed how they guarded my crucial art eye from the outskirts of the public eye.
Looked at every pore of my skin, on my nose cheeks and chin.
Followed the lines of my lips; the top one thinner than the bottom.
Looked carefully at my facial hair.
The reds, the deep browns, the blacks.
I stood in front of the mirror staring.
Not knowing how long it would last.
When I would wake up, once again, me, instead of him.
Hurt. No. But I apologize, I must go sleep.
I’ll be back tomorrow, perhaps.
© 2003 David Greg Harth
03.08.24.23:57:18@296NYC
Gravity
You’re pulling me nearby,
I can’t let go.
I recognize how much I love,
But I cannot face the truth.
You’re overwhelming,
I must bow out.
I see how much you love me,
But I can’t be here for you.
You’re not letting me be myself,
By depersonalizing me.
I hear your voice calling my name,
But I refuse to hear the words you speak.
You’re not loving me,
Smothering me with your heart.
I hear the door lock,
The key falling to the floor.
© 2003 David Greg Harth
03.08.16.17:38:07@296NYC
Left In The Dark
You left me.
Without saying a word,
you left.
After the evening,
the shared passion,
the lust.
You walked up and left me.
Now I lie here,
alone,
invisible,
with open hands,
left in the dark.
© 2003 David Greg Harth
03.08.16.01:11:11@296NYC
Spoiled Contents Of A Blackout Refrigerator
1 Half Gallon (1.89L) of Elmhurst Dairy 100% Fat Free Milk
(Pasteurized Vitamin A&D Skim Milk with No Hormones Added and No Antibiotics)
(Expiration Date of August 21st 2003)
1/6 of a jar 46OZ (2lbs 14oz)(1.30kg) of Mott’s Natural Apple Sauce
(Unsweetened & No Preservatives)
1/3 of a container of Papetti Foods Better’n Eggs Healthier Real Egg Product
(Fat Free & Cholesterol Free) 16oz, 1lb 454g
pasteurized for safety Oct 17 2003
1 full container of Papetti Foods Better’n Eggs Healthier Real Egg Product
(Fat Free & Cholesterol Free) 16oz, 1lb 454g
pasteurized for safety Oct 17 2003
1/2 of a bottle of House of Tsang Bangkok Padang Peanut Sauce 11.5oz 326g
1/2 of a bottle of ReaLemon Lemon Juice From Concentrate Natural Strength 15floz 443ml
2/3 of a bottle of San-J Reduced Sodium Tamari Natural Soy Sauce 10floz 296ml
9/10 of a jar of Hellmann’s Just 2 Good! Reduced Fat Mayonnaise Dressing
32floz 1qt .95L sept 13, 2003
11 slices of Kraft Fat Free singles Sharp Cheddar artificially flavored
nonfat pasteurized process cheese product
16 singles package 3/4 oz each
12oz net wt 340g
4/5 of tub of Hotel Bar salted whipped butter 8oz 227g Oct82003
1/2 of tub of Kraft Philadelphia Fat Free Cream Cheese 12oz 340g March 21 2003
1/2 jar of Spice World Ground Ginger 4oz 113g
19/20 of bottle of Heinz Tomato Ketchup 24oz 1lb8oz 680g
1/3 bottle of Hershey’s Lite Syrup Genuine Chocolate Flavor
18.5oz 1lb2.5oz 524g
8/10 bottle of Crystal Louisiana’s Pure Hot Sauce 12floz 335ml
2nd bottle, also 8/10 of bottle of Crystal Louisiana’s Pure Hot Sauce 12floz 335ml
8/10 of jar of Super Associated Strawberry Fancy Pure Preserves NetWt 18oz 1lb2oz 510g
8/10 of jar of Heinz Sweet Relish 10floz 296ml
6/10 of bottle of French’s Classic Yellow Mustard with the stay clean cap 8oz 226g
26 grape tomatoes Bald Eagle Farm; Jersey Sweet Grape Tomatoes 1 U.S. dry pint, 551ml
1/2 bottle of 4C All Natural 100% imported Parmesan grated cheese No preservatives net wt 6oz 170g
1 1/4 medium sized cucumber
2 medium sized Sunkist Valencia Oranges
1 small lime
Selected Green Giant Fresh Carrots net wt 1lb 453g with 7 carrots remaining
small bundle of mint in a zip loc bag dated 7-26-03 (Freezer)
2 uncooked turkey burgers in an undated zip loc bag (Freezer)
1 bag super A green peas 20oz 1lb4oz 567g (Freezer)
Mrs. Smith’s Bake It Fresh Sweet Potato (pie) net wt 2lb5oz 1.05kg (Freezer)
YVES Veggie Cuisine The Good Dog (Freezer)
lowfat juicy and authentic tasting meatless 11oz 312g
4 dogs of package of 6 12 aug 03
12 small containers containing medium for Harthritis (Freezer)
© 2003 David Greg Harth
03.08.14.16:11:00 @ 296NYC
03.08.15.21:03:00 @ 296NYC